Chapter 21
Part 21
MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon, _d._ 1851). _b._ Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned 1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887 to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888; published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble, of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887; granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4 ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope 1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879; A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4; Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. _d._ 19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. _bur._ in graveyard of St. Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. _H. R. Haweis’s Sir M. Mackenzie_ (1893), _portrait_; _Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays_ (1893), _portrait_; _Journal of laryngology_, _vi_ 95–108 (1892), _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 371 (1891), 5 _portraits_; _Victoria Mag. xxxiii_ 185 (1879), _portrait_; _Provincial Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.
MC KENZIE, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about 1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. _d._ while on a visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. _bur._ Glasgow necropolis. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 199–202 (1886), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, RICHARD JAMES (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). _b._ Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36; apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9; assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850; lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849; with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed 27 operations after the battle of the Alma. _d._ of cholera on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. _Begbie and Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie_ (1855), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, ROBERT (son of a parish schoolmaster). _b._ Barry, Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857; frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.; author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth century 1880; America, a history 1882. _d._ Magdalen yard road, Dundee 2 Feb. 1881.
MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain in the army, author of books in Gaelic). _b._ Drew’s court, Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork 1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London 1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office 25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3 vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock 3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works in America 1854–71. _d._ Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. _Law Times 30 Oct. 1852 pp._ 66–7.
MACKENZIE, THOMAS (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). _b._ 1793; a writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty 1837–47. _d._ Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856.
MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie, tradesman, Perth). _b._ Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired 1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. _d._ 24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1869 pp._ 609–10; _Law mag. and law rev. xxix_ 271–3 (1870).
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794; apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to 1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. _d._ 19 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_ 102–5 (1852).
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer, _d._ 1800). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death; with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow 1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye, Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and 2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838; author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 30 July 1868. _Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 203–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Glasgow Medical journal_, _i_ 6–13 (1868).
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3; minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the 33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth, unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in portions for all the days in the year 1847. _Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt._ 2 _p._ 754 (1869).
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (son of James Mackenzie _d._ 1822). _b._ Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story 1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life, its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus, his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading 1867 and 35 other books. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. _Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B. Mackenzie_ (1872), _biographical sketch pp. ix–xci_, _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie 1825–62). _b._ Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P. Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb. 1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853; contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. _d._ The Glen, Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862.
MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (son of Daniel Mackenzie _d._ 1795). _b._ Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth 1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834, and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov. 1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837, utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws 1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. _d._ Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie. Toronto_ 2 _vols._ (1862), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 241; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 201; _G.M. xi_ 566–8 (1861).
MC KERROW, JOHN. _b._ Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith 1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian churches 1867. _d._ at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series_ (1851) 297–303; _United Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p._ 285.
MC KERROW, WILLIAM (son of William Mc Kerrow _d._ 1851, wheelwright and turner). _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets, and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association 1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance, vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its advantages, a lecture 1853. _d._ Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire 4 June 1878. _Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son_ (1881), _portrait_; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 178–82.
MACKESON, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Mackeson). _b._ Hythe, Kent 28 Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany. 1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; _assassinated_ when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853.
MACKESON, WILLIAM WYLLYS (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue Mountain, Jamaica). _b._ 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage. By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2 vols. 1884. _d._ Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892.
MACKESY, THOMAS LEWIS. _b._ Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ. 1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R. coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death; last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. _d._ 47 Lady lane, Waterford 9 April 1869.
MC KEWAN, DAVID HALL (son of David Mc Kewan). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in sepia 1870. _d._ 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2 Aug. 1873. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 396–7.
MACKIE, IVIE. _b._ 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie, Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56 and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60; presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a munificent contributor to local charities. _d._ Manchester 23 Feb. 1873.
MACKIE, JAMES (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., _d._ 1858). _b._ 18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3 April 1857 to death. _d._ Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec. 1867.
MC KIE, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. _d._ Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. _Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891_, _portrait_.
NOTE.--He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.
MACKIE, JOHN (son of James Mackie of Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. _d._ Bargaly 3 July 1858.
MACKIE, ROBERT BOWNAS (son of Robert J. Mackie). _b._ Wakefield 1829; ed. Wesley coll. Sheffield; partner in firm of Robert Mackie and Sons, corn merchants, Wakefield; contested Wakefield 2 Feb. 1874 and 6 May 1874; M.P. Wakefield 1880 to death. _d._ 35 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 18 June 1885.
M’KILLOP, HENRY FREDERICK. Sub-lieutenant R.N. 10 Aug. 1847; captain R.N. 24 Nov. 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877; captain of the port and comptroller general of ports and lighthouses in Egypt to death; knight of legion of honour; received 1st class Medjidie 1875; raised to rank of Fereek by the Khedive 1877; author of Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New Zealand as a midshipman 1849. _d._ Ramlet, Alexandria, Egypt 5 June 1879.
MC KIM, ROBERT. _b._ co. Tyrone 24 May 1816; apprenticed to a stone-mason; emigrated to U.S. of America; a stone-mason at Philadelphia, then at Madison, Indiana 1837–55; a coal merchant 1855; purchased and mounted in his observatory one of the best telescopes in America; presented to observatory of De Pauw univ. a complete astronomical outfit at cost of over 10,000 dollars. _d._ Madison 9 May 1887.
MC KINLAY, JOHN. _b._ Sandbank on the Clyde 1819; emigrated to New South Wales 1836 where he took up several runs near the South Australian border; commanded expedition sent to trace the fate of Burke and Wills by South Australian government, left Adelaide 16 Aug. 1861, proved that Lake Torrens did not exist but found several new lakes, explored the country between Eyre’s Creek and Central Mount Stuart; reached Port Denison 25 Sep. 1862; voted £1000 by the government of S. Australia 1862; explored northern part of S. Australia 1865–6. _d._ 31 Dec. 1872, monument erected at Gawler, S. Australia. _Mackinlay’s Journal of exploration in the interior of Australia_ (1862); _J. Davis’s Tracts of Mc Kinlay across Australia_ (1863); _W. Howilt’s History of discovery in Australia_, _ii_ 254–83 (1865); _J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia_, _ii_ 475–91 (1875); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 36 (1865), _portrait_.
M’KINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Devonport 1766; entered navy 5 Aug. 1773; captain 20 Oct. 1801; superintendent of royal navy asylum Greenwich, April 1821 to 22 July 1830; admiral on h.p. 11 June 1851, pensioned 16 Sep. 1851. _d._ Anglesey near Gosport 17 Jany. 1852.
MACKINNON, DANIEL HENRY (youngest son of Daniel Mackinnon of Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). _b._ 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1 Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2 ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. _d._ 7 Jany. 1884.
MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of Strath, _d._ 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain, Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. _d._ Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. _The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p._ 5.
MACKINNON, KENNETH M. _b._ 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army 19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857; apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west provinces. Cawnpore 1848. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861.
MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon _d._ 1888). _b._ Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen; emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839; settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W. legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in 1868 and lived in Devonshire. _d._ Torquay 21 March 1888.
MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon 1789–1870). _b._ Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815; entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain 1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848; Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Ormley lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877.
MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1825; ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and _died_ soon after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) _pp._ 77–80.
MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to 1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants; commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and 10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15 July 1889. _d._ of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893. _Black and White 1 July 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 July 1893 p._ 7, _portrait_.
MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of Mackinnon). _b._ 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich 1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65; brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia; F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon., published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols. 1846. _d._ Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. _I.L.N. xv_ 44 (1849), _portrait_.
MACKINTOSH, ANGUS (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum, Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr. Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29 July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. _A.R._ (1864) 19–22.
MACKINTOSH, CHARLES CALDER (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh _d._ Tain 1831). _b._ Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow; co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep. 1850. _d._ Pau 24 Nov. 1868. _W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C. Mackintosh_ (1871), _biographical sketch pp._ 23–51, _portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 310 (1870).
MACKINTOSH, DANIEL (son of the owner of a water-power mill). _b._ Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy, geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart. Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861, received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received 4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research; presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3; author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales, its character and origin 1869. _d._ Birkenhead 19 July 1891. _bur._ Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. _Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p._ 432.
MACKINTOSH, MACKAY. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May 1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert, Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829; Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare 1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic; Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick Macleod with memorials 1869. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 19 (1870).
MACKMURDO, GILBERT WAKEFIELD. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. _d._ Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.
MACKNESS, JAMES (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man). _b._ Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s 15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. _d._ Wellington sq. Hastings 8 Feb. 1851. _Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard_ (1851).
MACKONOCHIE, ALEXANDER HERIOT (3 son of George Mackonochie, retired colonel). _b._ Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage, Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862, church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him 1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years; resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870; V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec. 1883; author of First principles _v._ Erastianism, sermons 1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, _found dead_ in the deer forest of Manore 15 Dec. 1887. _bur._ in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild, Working 23 Dec. _E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir_ (1890), _portrait_; _Church portrait journal n.s. iii_ 49–56 (1882), _portrait_; _Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson. By W. G. F. Phillimore_ (1868); _Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale_ (1871).
MACKONOCHIE, JAMES (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1823; advocate at Scotch bar 1845; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; a revising barrister 1873–88; recorder of Winchester, Jany. 1880 to Dec. 1888; judge of county court, circuit 55 (Hants. and Dorset), Nov. 1888 to death. _d._ Kenilworth, Cavendish road, Bournemouth 18 Dec. 1892.
MC KOWEN, JAMES. _b._ Lambeg near Lisburn, co. Antrim 11 Feb. 1814; employed at bleach works of Richardson, Sons & Owden, Belfast about 1833 to death; contributed many racy poems to Northern Whig and other Ulster papers from about 1840, generally under pseudonym of Kitty Connor; one of his pieces The old Irish cow, became very popular in Ulster, and another The ould Irish jig, is known throughout Ireland; 9 of his poems are in The harp of Erin. Dublin 1867; resided at Millbrook. _d._ Beechside, Lisburn 22 April 1889. _bur._ Lambeg 25 April. _The Northern Whig 24 April 1889 pp._ 1, 5.
MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY, 4 Baronet (eld. son of sir Digby Mackworth, 3 bart. 1766–1838). _b._ Oxford 13 June 1789; ed. at Westminster; lieut. 7 fusiliers 9 July 1807; carried the colours at Talavera 27 and 28 July 1809; one of lord Hill’s aides de camp; captain 13 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1818 to 23 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832 for his assistance in suppressing riots in forest of Dean 1830 and at Bristol 1831; succeeded his father as 4 bart. 2 May 1838; sheriff of Monmouthshire 1843; chief founder of National club, London 1845; contested Derby 1846 and Liverpool 1847. _d._ Glen Uske, Monmouthshire 23 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 524–26 (1852); _I.L.N. xxi_ 282 (1852).
NOTE.--He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the 1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.
MACKWORTH, HUBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.; author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. _d._ Clifton wood house, Bristol 13 July 1858.
MACLACHLAN, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803, col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare. _d._ Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.
MACLACHLAN, ARCHIBALD. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799; major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec. 1854.
MACLACHLAN, DANIEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced life 1863. _d._ Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi_ 350 (1871).
MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers, Edinburgh. _d._ Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1876. _Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p._ 8.
MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow cathedral 23 May 1878. _d._ Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.
MACLAGAN, ALEXANDER (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). _b._ Bridgend, Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829; manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871; National songs and ballads 1878. _d._ Edinburgh 20 April 1879. _C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel_, _v_ 226–40 (1857).
MACLAGAN, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S. 1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p. 1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826; pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. _d._ 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June 1865. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v_ 476–7 (1866).
MACLAGAN, DAVID (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co. 1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh, a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church 1876. _d._ Mentone 30 March 1883.
MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., _d._ 1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep. 1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic movements; botanist. _d._ Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic 17 June 1893 p._ 5, _view of fountain_.
MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale in the Isle of Mull, _d._ 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). _b._ 13 Jany. 1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22 Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col. 7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816; lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17 foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855. _d._ 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). _b._ Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30 July; _murdered_ by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. _bur._ Kandahar with military honours. _Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign_ (1882) 131–4, _portrait_.
MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium, Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868; A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army 1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical 1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._ Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.
MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). _b._ Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Moreland cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. _R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren_ 2 _vols._ (1869), _portrait_.
MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). _b._ Renton, Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833, baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81, used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland; established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4 ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of Edinburgh 1840. _d._ Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886, portrait in council chamber, Edinb. _J. B. Mackie’s Life and works of D. Mc Laren_ 2 _vols._ (1888), 2 _portraits_.
M’LAREN, JAMES. _b._ Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the oldest official connected with the company. _d._ Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1893.
M’LAREN, JOHN H. _b._ Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager 1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. _d._ Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.
MC LAUCHLAN, HENRY. _b._ 1791; surveyor in connection with the manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S. 1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans. Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857; Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. _d._ 14 Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxviii proceedings p._ 53 (1882); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 333.
MACLAUCHLAN, THOMAS (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister of Moy, Inverness). _b._ Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43; Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire 1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council 1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic; Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels 1857; The early Scotch church 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 21 March 1886.
MC LAUGHLAN, JOHN (son of a Highland Scotchman). _b._ Dovenby near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm. Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug. 1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828; umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth, Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several years. _d._ Liverpool, Oct. 1876. _J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s Wrestling_ (1893) 208–218.
MC LAUGHLIN, HUBERT. _b._ 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of ancient Irish saints 1874. _d._ Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882. _Times 21 Dec. 1882 p._ 4 _col._ 4.
MACLAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776; ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805; minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of which he became general agent and then president; obtained an endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel, Glasgow 1840. _d._ New York city 2 May 1860. _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 141–2 (1888).
MACLAY, MIKLUOHO (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). _b._ 1846; ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in New Guinea 1887. _d._ Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April 1888.
MACLEA, CHARLES GASCOIGNE. _b._ 1793; member of firm of Maclea and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition 1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. _d._ Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 516–8; _Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire_, _i_ 641, _ii_ 251–2 (1878).
MACLEAN, ALEXANDER (son of David Maclean of Glasgow, manufacturer). _b._ Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861; studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1877. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.
MACLEAN, ALLAN THOMAS (2 son of Archibald Maclean of Penny-cross, co. Argyle). _b._ 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861; served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with 6 clasps. _d._ Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 113, 358, 525 (1869).
MC LEAN, ARCHIBALD (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a member of legislative council of Canada). _b._ St. Andrew’s, April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff; a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker; judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to death. _d._ Toronto 1865. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 142–3 (1888).
MACLEAN, ARCHIBALD. Rear admiral in German navy. _d._ Berlin 7 Nov. 1884.
MC LEAN, CHARLES. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London 1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov. 1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. _d._ 1869.
MACLEAN, SIR CHARLES FITZROY, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet _d._ 5 July 1847). _b._ 14 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct. 1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar; colonel 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ West Cliff house, Sandgate road, Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.
MACLEAN, DONALD (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). _b._ 1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford 1835–47. _d._ Rome 21 March 1874.
MC LEAN, SIR DONALD (4 son of John Mc Lean). _b._ Kilmonaig near Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki 1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives 5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870, K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. _d._ New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 163, 248, 289, _portrait_.
MACLEAN, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart, Fifeshire). _b._ Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849, placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 _d._ Southampton 29 May 1861.
MC LEAN, HECTOR (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20; rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887; captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. _d._ of typhoid fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.
NOTE.--The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second division which takes place annually in the month of March were instituted in his memory.
MACLEAN, HENRY DUNDAS (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour, Argyleshire 1764–1855). _b._ 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot 27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832, placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846; sheriff of Cumberland 1848. _d._ Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec. 1863.
MACLEAN, JOHN (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire). _b._ 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858; assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London, Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college, Toronto 1871. _d._ Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. _The Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p._ 1720.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria, Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B. 25 Aug. 1857. _d._ East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874; his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and _d._ 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre 27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to 1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. _d._ at his lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890. _bur._ Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 255; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 575, 592, 593 (1877) _portrait_, _xxii_ 537 (1885) _portrait_, _and 22 March 1890 p._ 44 _portrait_; _The Era 22 March 1890_.
M’LEAN, JOHN DONALD (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle of Skye). _b._ Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837; grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec. 1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death. _d._ Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec. 1866. _Australian men of mark_, _ii_ 87–92 (1889), _portrait_.
M’CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON (son of Francis M’Clean of Belfast) _b._ 1813; ed. at royal academical institution Belfast and Glasgow univ.; M.I.C.E. 15 June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858–64, pres. 1864–5; lieut.-col. engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865 to death; chairman Anglo American telegraph co.; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. East Staffordshire 17 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Stonehouse near Ramsgate 13 July 1873.
M’LEAN, ROBERT. _b._ 29 July 1857; ed. at Dr. Adams’ school, Victoria park, Manchester and at Fettes coll. Edinb. 1870–5; articled to Hall, Son and Lord, Manchester 1876–81; New Inn prizeman at examination June 1881; practised at Manchester 1881, and in London with Albert Gibson 1888 to death; author of A lesson well learnt and of other dramas and of Diversions of an articled clerk 1892; edited with A. Gibson and Arthur Weldon, Law Notes, a monthly magazine for students 1888 to Feb. 1893; author with A. Gibson of The student’s conveyancing 1885, 3 ed. 1892; Student’s Equity 1887; Student’s practice of the courts 1882, 4 ed. 1889; wrote the libretto of Eric the Dane, a cantata performed at one of Sir Charles Halle’s concerts. _d._ Richmond house, High st. Oxford road, Manchester 2 Feb. 1893. _Law Notes_, _March 1893_, _portrait_.
M’LEAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1788; a publisher of engravings 69 Haymarket, London 1825, retired in favor of his eldest son; brought out prints of sir E. Landseer’s pictures of The Stag at bay, Dignity and impudence, Laying down the law, and Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home; published the Political sketches of H. B. [_i.e._ J. Doyle] No. 1–757, a series of coloured lithographic prints 1829–43; published Illustrated description of the works of J. Gillray 1830; Humorous engravings, sporting prints 1835. _d._ Selhurst, Surrey 9 March 1875.
MACLEAR, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of James Maclear). _b._ Newton Stewart, Tyrone 17 March 1794; ed. Winchester; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815; house surgeon of Bedford infirmary 1815; practised at Biggleswade 1823–33, where he erected an observatory 1828; astronomer royal at Cape of Good Hope 5 Jany. 1834 to 1870; F.R.A.S. 1828; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831, royal medallist 1869; Lalande medal of the Academy of sciences 1867; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; became totally blind 1867; contributed to Memoirs of R. Astronom. soc. 1835 etc.; author of Observations of Halley’s comet made at Cape of Good Hope 1837; Astronomical observations made under the direction T. Maclear 1840; Contributions to astronomy and geodesy 2 vols. 1851 and 1853; Verification and extension of La Caille’s arc of meridian 1866; Catalogue of 4810 stars from observation made by sir T. Maclear 1884. _d._ Grey villa, Mowbray, Capetown 14 July 1879. _bur._ in the observatory grounds. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl_ 200–204 (1880); _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 17–18 (1879); _Nature 14 Aug. 1879 p._ 365.
MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec. N.S.W., _d._ 1848). _b._ 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822 etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30; member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6; member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875; settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. _d._ Chalet des Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891.
MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 15 April 1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. _d._ 49 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892.
MACLEAY, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician). _b._ Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 3 Malta terrace, Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 444–5.
MACLEAY, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore, Rossshire). _b._ Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75; the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay; expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ. of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875; knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec. 1891. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 93–8, _portrait_.
MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP (brother of James Robert Macleay 1811–92). _b._ London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S. 1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21; Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the new sperm whale 1851. _d._ Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865. _F.O. List_, _Jany. 1865 p._ 116.
MACLEHOSE, JAMES (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). _b._ Govan 16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow 1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R. Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards of 50 writers in his employment and published many books; bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. _d._ 18 Victoria crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. _Maclehose’s Memoirs_, _ii_ 343–6 (1886), _portrait_.
MC LELAN, ARCHIBALD WOODBURY. _b._ 1824; member of provincial assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881; minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr. for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. _d._ Nova Scotia 25 June 1890.
M’LELLAN, ARCHIBALD (son of a coachbuilder). _b._ Glasgow 1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st. purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854; author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833; Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839. _d._ Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. _bur._ in the High church burying-ground at Glasgow. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 205–6 (1886), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art_, _iii_ 286–91 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 457–62.
M’LENNAN, DONALD (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent). _b._ Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan. Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. _d._ 2 Vicarage gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.
MC LENNAN, JOHN. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821, surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849, retired 26 Jany. 1855. _d._ 5 April 1874.
MC LENNAN, JOHN FERGUSON (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91). _b._ Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871; LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865; Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876; Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. _d._ Hawthorndene, Hayes Common, Kent 16 June 1881.
MACLEOD, ALEXANDER. _b._ Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44; presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844; transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children 1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877; Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. _d._ Birkenhead 13 Jany. 1891. _In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D._ (1891); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 375–80.
M’LEOD, SIR CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800; captain 21 N.I. 21 Sep. 1804, major 25 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 12 N.I. 31 May 1827 to 5 June 1829; col. 34 N.I. 5 June 1829 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 30 June 1852. _d._ Seymour st. Portman sq. London 15 April 1853.
MACLEOD, DONALD. Entered Madras army 1812; lieut.-col. of 6 Madras light cavalry 1840, of 5 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to 1846; col. 3 light cavalry 11 Sep. 1848 to 1860; col. 4 light cavalry 1860–69; L.G. 2 Oct. 1862; commander of Nagpore subsidiary force 20 Sep. 1848 to 17 June 1851, of Ceded district 28 March 1854 to 28 March 1859. _d._ 29 Greenhill gardens, Morningside, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1870.
MC LEOD, SIR DONALD FRIELL (son of Duncan Mc Leod 1780–1856). _b._ Fort William, Calcutta 6 May 1810; entered Bengal civil service 1829; administrator of Saugor and Nerbudda 1831–40; collector and magistrate at Benares 1843–9; comr. at Jellunder of the Trans-Sutlej States 1849–54; financial comr. of the Punjab 1854–9 and 1860–5; lieut. governor of the Punjab, Jany. 1865, retired 1870; chairman of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi railway; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ St. George’s hospital, London 28 Nov. 1872 from an accident on the Metropolitan railway at Gloucester road station same day. _E. J. Lake’s Memoir of sir D. F. Mc Leod_ (1873), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxi_ 550, 565 (1872), _portrait_.
MACLEOD, DUNCAN (son of Donald Macleod). _b._ Torbat, co. Ross 20 Feb. 1780; entered Bengal army Feb. 1797; lieut. Bengal engineers 13 Feb. 1803, col. 18 June 1831 to death; built the palace at Moorshedabad 1825–36; left India, Feb. 1841; A.I.C.E. 1842; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ London 8 June 1856. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 163–66 (1857).
MACLEOD, SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD (3 son of Norman Macleod 1783–1862). _b._ 1828; studied medicine at Glasgow, M.D. 1853; at Paris and Vienna; senior surgeon of civil hospital at Smyrna, Feb. 1854 to 1856; surgeon at Glasgow 1856 to death; surgeon in Glasgow royal infirmary, and lecturer on surgery at Anderson’s college; regius professor of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1869; crown member of general council of medical education 15 Sep. 1887 to death; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 10 Sep. 1877; LL.D. St. Andrews; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; author of Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea 1858; Outlines of surgical diagnosis 1864; Note book for sir G. Macleod’s clinical class 5 ed. 1890; wrote articles in S. Cooper’s Surgical dictionary 1861. _d._ Woodside crescent, Glasgow 31 Aug. 1892. _bur._ Campsie churchyard. _I.L.N. 10 Sep. 1892 p._ 326, _portrait_.
MACLEOD, SIR JOHN (son of Donald Macleod of Bernaray, co. Inverness). Ensign 78 highlanders 9 March 1793, lieut.-col. 12 May 1808 to Jany. 1826; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837; colonel of 77 regt. 17 Feb. 1840 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 4 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 July 1832. _d._ 18 Montague st. Portman sq. London 3 April 1851.
M’LEOD, JOHN LYONS. Entered R.N. 26 Nov. 1841; when a midshipman he captured the slaver Venus after an action of 20 minutes 13 Feb. 1845 for which promoted to be lieut.; British consul at Mozambique 15 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858, when he exposed the slavery system known as the engagés libres; consul for districts bordering on rivers Niger and Chadda 26 June 1866, consulate abolished 13 May 1869, granted compensation allowance 1 July 1869; author of Travels in Eastern Africa 2 vols. 1860; Madagascar and its people 1865. _d._ 25 Oct. 1893.
MACLEOD, SIR JOHN MACPHERSON (eld. son of Donald Macleod, colonel in Madras army). _b._ Ardarden, Dumbartonshire 1792; ed. at Haileybury and at univ. of Edinb.; writer Madras civil service 1811; assistant sec. to government of Madras 1814–20 and sec. 1823; comr. for government of Mysore 1832; member of Indian law commission 1835, retired 1841; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; P.C. 24 March 1871; author of Remarks on some popular objections to the income tax 1849. _d._ 1 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 1 March 1881.
MACLEOD, JOSEPH ADDISON (eld. son of Joseph Addison Macleod of city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1839; ed. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1861; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1863; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882. _d._ 27 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 14 April 1883. _bur._ Hulton, Essex 18 April.
MACLEOD, NORMAN (son of Norman Macleod, minister of Morven, Argyllshire). _b._ Morven, Dec. 1783; minister at Kilbrandon, Argyllshire 1806–8; minister at Campbeltown, Argyllshire 12 June 1808; minister at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Aug. 1825; D.D. Glasgow 30 July 1827; minister of Gaelic chapel of ease, St. Columba’s, Glasgow 31 Oct. 1835 to death; moderator of general assembly of church of Scotland 1836; chaplain in ord. to the queen 2 Oct. 1841; one of the deans of chapel royal 1841; author of Gaelic collection for the use of schools 1828; The Gaelic messenger 2 vols. 1831; The psalms of David in Irish; author with D. Dewar of A dictionary of the Gaelic language 1831. _d._ Glasgow 25 Nov. 1862. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 103–7; _Hew Scott’s Fasti_, _ii_ 32–3, 55 _and iii_ 37.
MACLEOD, NORMAN (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Kirk st. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 3 June 1812; ed. at Glasgow and Edinburgh univs.; minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire 15 March 1838 to 1843; minister of Dalkeith near Edinburgh 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; sent by general assembly to British North America, June 1845; member of general assembly 1849; minister of Barony church, Glasgow 27 Feb. 1851, inducted July 1851; dean of the chapel royal; one of H.M. chaplains for Scotland 26 Dec. 1857; hon. D.D. Glasgow 30 April 1858; dean of the order of the thistle 26 July 1869; visited the mission stations in India 1867; moderator of the general assembly 1869; edited The Edinburgh christian magazine 1850–9; Good words 1860 etc.; Good words for the young 1868–70; author of Deborah or fireside readings for servants 1857; The home school, or hints on home education 1856; Parish papers 1862; Reminiscences of a highland parish 1867; The starling, a Scottish story 2 vols. 1867; Eastward, a visit to Egypt and the Holy Land 1866; Peeps at the far east, a visit to India 1871 and 25 other books. _d._ Glasgow 16 June 1872. _bur._ Campsie 20 June. His statue erected in Glasgow and two windows placed by the queen to his memory in Crathie church. _D. Macleod’s Memoir of N. Macleod_ (1877), _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 86–7, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 313–23; _More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands_ (1884) 209–37; _Illustrated Review_, _iv_ 33–7 (1872), _portrait_; _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 207–12 (1886), _portrait_.
MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ Scotland; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1816; surgeon in the army; settled in London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1821; F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1837, consiliarius 1839; editor and proprietor of London Medical Gazette, number one 8 Dec. 1827, a weekly journal; physician St. George’s hospital 13 Feb. 1833 to 1845; author of On rheumatism 1842. _d._ Chanonry, Old Aberdeen 7 Dec. 1852. _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 243–4 (1878).
MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ 1786; M.P. Cromarty and Nairn 1818–20; M.P. co. Sutherland 1831–7 and M.P. Inverness district of burghs 1837–40; lord lieutenant of Cromarty 8 May 1833 to death. _d._ Invergordon castle, Rossshire 13 March 1853.
M’LEOD, RODERICK (son of the minister of Snizort). _b._ Glen-Haltin, Isle of Skye 1794; presbyterian minister at Lynedale, Skye to 1823, at Bracadale 1823–38 and at Snizort 1838–43; minister of the Free church, often preaching on hill sides and in snow storms 1843, itinerated in Skye to his death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1863; author of Report of the proceedings of the general assembly in the case of the suspension of R. M’Leod 1826. _d._ 1868. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 383–8, _portrait_.
MACLEOD, RODERICK BANNATYNE. _b._ 18 Feb. 1823; entered Bengal army; cornet 4 European light cavalry 27 Sep. 1843, captain 6 Sep. 1851; captain 3 European light cavalry to 1862; major 21 hussars 30 July 1862, lieut.-col. 4 March 1868 to 8 Dec. 1877 when he retired as M.G. _d._ Golden manor court near Hanwell, Middlesex 24 Feb. 1881.
MACLEOD, WILLIAM COUPERUS. Entered Madras army 1821; lieut. 30 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 14 May 1853 to 1856; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1856–7, of 14 N.I. 1857–9, of 40 N.I. 1859–60, of 14 N.I. 1860–3 and of 1 N.I. 1863 to 1 Aug. 1864; commandant at Jaulnah 16 Aug. 1859 to 9 July 1861; commandant at Malabar and Canara 9 July 1861 to 15 Jany. 1862; commandant of Nagpore subsidiary force 15 Jany. 1862 to 2 June 1863; commanded Pegu division 2 June 1863 to 27 April 1864; commanded Ceded district 27 April 1864 to 30 May 1868; col. of 30 Madras N.I. 12 March 1865 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 62 Gloucester gardens, London 4 April 1880.
M’LERIE, JOHN. _b._ Ayrshire 1809; private in fusilier guards; an orderly clerk in war office; ensign 58 foot 28 Dec. 1838, adjutant 1838–48, lieut. 27 June 1841, sold out 7 June 1850; served in Tasmania and N.S.W.; was in Maori war of 1845; paymaster and adjutant of the mounted patrol, Sydney; principal gaoler at Darlinghurst; police magistrate and superintendent of police, Sydney 1850; inspector general of police 1856 when he suppressed bush-ranging. _d._ 6 Oct. 1874. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates_ (1879) 140.
M’LETCHIE, JAMES. _b._ Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800; apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.; presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841, at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow 1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to death. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. _bur._ Grange cemetery 24 Sep. _Sermons by J. M’Letchie_ (1871) _memoir pp. vii–xxvii_, _portrait_.
MACLISE, DANIEL (2 child of Alexander Mc Lish of Cork, tanner). _baptized_ in presbyterian ch. Princes st. Cork 2 Feb. 1806 but he always said he was _b._ 25 Jany. 1811; student at Cork academy opened 1822; opened a studio in Patrick st. 1825; entered schools of the R.A. London 20 April 1828, gained the gold medal for historical composition 1829; contributed 80 character portraits to Fraser’s Mag. latterly under nom de plume of Alfred Croquis, June 1830 to 1838; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1829–71; altered spelling of his name to Maclise 1835; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840; for his great mural paintings of Wellington and Blucher 1858–61 and The death of Nelson on board the Victory 1861–4, in the royal gallery Westminster, he was paid £7,000; designed the Swiney cup for the Society of arts, the medal for International Exhibition 1862, and the Turner medal for the R.A.; illustrated The princess by A. Tennyson 1860 and took part in illustrating many other works. _d._ 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 25 April 1870. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery in his father’s vault, portrait by E. M. Ward in National portrait gallery. _W. J. O’Driscoll’s Memoir of D. Maclise_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 100, _portrait_; _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 15–19; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 161–64 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_; _Fine art. By W. M. Rossetti_ (1867) 245–54; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 448–63, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vi_ 293 (1845) _portrait_, _iii_ 169, 170 (1868), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 4 May 1870 p._ 313, _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. May 1847 p._ 594, _portrait_.
MACLIVER, PETER STEWART (son of David Macliver of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland). _b._ Edinburgh 1820; ed. High sch. and univ. of Glasgow; on staff of Tyne mercury at Newcastle 1845; started the Newcastle Guardian; founder and proprietor of Western Daily Press, Bristol 29 June 1858, built at great cost new offices 1889; M.P. Plymouth 1880–85; great advocate of cause of post office officials; liberal candidate for Doncaster division of Yorkshire 1890. _d._ Cotham park, Brighton 19 April 1891. _Michell’s Newspaper Press directory_ (1892) 78, _portrait_; _Congregationalist_, _Dec. 1881 pp._ 977–82, _portrait_.
MACLOUGHLIN, DAVID. _b._ 1784; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1810; L.R.C.S. 1809; assistant surgeon in the army 22 June 1815; served during Peninsular war, taken prisoner; in charge of a French hospital; Napoleon made him a member of the Legion of honour, the first Englishman so honoured; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; in practice at 36 Bruton st. London; author of Result of an enquiry into the existence of premonitory diarrhœa in cholera 1854; Consultation médico-légale sur paralysies vraies. Paris 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Result of an enquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by intercourse 1856; Proofs of the non existence of a specific enthetic disease 1863; Letter to the duke of Somerset relative to the question, Is there a syphilitic virus 1864; Pathological facts as to the means for the prevention of contagious disease 1864. _d._ 22 Maddox st. London 26 Feb. 1870.
MACLURE, ROBERT. Ed. Edinb. acad.; head classical and mathematical master of a district sch. in connection with King’s coll. London; a candidate for Greek chair in Edinb. univ. Dec. 1851; professor of humanity Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen 1852 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of humanity in Aberdeen univ. 15 Sep. 1860 to 1881. _Testimonials of Dr. Maclure, candidate for the Greek chair_ (1852).
MACMAHON, SIR CHARLES (3 son of sir Wm. Macmahon, master of the rolls in Ireland). _b._ Fortfield, co. Dublin 10 July 1824; ensign 71 Highlanders 4 Aug. 1843; cornet 10 hussars 3 April 1846, lieut. 2 Feb. 1847, sold out 8 Aug. 1851; a member of the police force, Melbourne, Australia, Jany. 1853, assist. commissioner 1856, then chief commissioner, resigned 1858; member of legislative assembly West Bourke 1861, a member of the cabinet 1861–63; contested West Bourke 1863; member legislative assembly, West Melbourne 1866–78 and 1880–86; speaker of the assembly 1871–4, 1874–7 and 1880; knighted by patent 29 Sep. 1875. _d._ East Melbourne 28 Aug. 1891. _Mennell’s Australian Biog._ (1892) 305–6.
MC MAHON, PATRICK. _b._ 1813; barrister G.I. 8 June 1842, went Oxford circuit; M.P. co. Wexford 1852–65 and M.P. New Ross 1868–74; junior counsel for defence of Tichborne claimant 1872–3; author of articles in Dublin Review. _d._ 19 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. xxx_ 499 (1857) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 43 (1876).
MAC MAHON, PATRICK WILLIAM. Ensign 81 foot 6 Nov. 1835; captain 44 foot 17 May 1845, lieut.-col. 28 Aug. 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 36 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to death; col. in the army 4 May 1861; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brighton 14 Oct. 1871.
MC MAHON, SIR THOMAS, 2 Baronet (younger son of John Mc Mahon, patentee comptroller of port of Limerick, _d._ 22 May 1789). _b._ 27 Dec. 1779; ensign 22 foot 2 Feb. 1797; lieut.-col. 17 foot 20 June 1811 to 4 Nov. 1822; succeeded brother as 2 bart. 12 Sep. 1817; colonel 94 foot 28 March 1838 to 28 Sep. 1847; colonel 10 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; commander in chief at Bombay 16 Oct. 1839 to 13 Jany. 1847; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 18 Jany. 1827, G.C.B. 20 June 1859. _d._ 10 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 10 April 1860.
MACMAHON, SIR THOMAS WESTROPP, 3 Baronet (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 14 Feb. 1813; cornet 16 lancers 24 Dec. 1829; cornet 6 dragoons 1830, captain 1838–42; captain 9 light dragoons 1842, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; in Sutlej campaign, present at Sobraon 1846; major 5 dragoon guards 24 Nov. 1854, lieut.-col. 12 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; military secretary Bombay 14 Feb. 1840 to April 1847; A.Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March to 20 Dec. 1854, present at Alma, Balaklava, Tchernaya and at siege of Sebastopol; M.G. cavalry brigade Aldershot, and inspector general of cavalry in Great Britain 14 June 1871 to 31 July 1876; col. of 18 hussars 6 Jany. 1874 and of 5 dragoon guards 1885 to death; general 12 April 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ The Sycamores, Farnborough, Hampshire 23 Jany. 1892.
MACMANUS, TERENCE BELLEW. _b._ co. Fermanagh about 1823; a shipping agent at Liverpool; a member of the ’82 club in Ireland 1844; joined the physical force movement 1848; took part in the Tipperary civil war 1848; tried for high treason by special commission at Clonmel with Smith O’Brien 9 Oct. 1848, sentenced to death and confined in Richmond Bridewell, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life, transported to Van Diemen’s Land, reached there July 1849; escaped to San Francisco 1852 where he became a shipping agent but failed. _d._ San Francisco 1860. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery near Dublin 10 Nov. 1861.